The Portuguese attacker spent four years with the Red Devils, but was sent out on-loan three times and managed just seven first team appearances before leaving for Benfica in 2014.

Now at the Estadio da Luz and the 24-year-old is still struggling to find his place and has been loaned to Cordoba by the reigning Primeira Liga champions.

Now considered widely as a United flop, Bebe himself has admitted that even he thought it was a joke when Ferguson secured his signature over four years ago.

“I had a contract with a termination clause of €9m and within two days there was a team that wanted to pay it. And I went to Manchester. I thought they were joking,” the former Portugal Under-21 international told Marca.